Ubuntu 16.10 Xeon E3-1280 v5 Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 testing with a MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Xeon E3-1280 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (324/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 364.19, OpenGL: 4.5.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 25.41 |====================================================== LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 52.06 |====================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 3793.97 |==================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 2230.91 |==================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 93.32 |====================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 26.05 |====================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 5.48 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 4352.35 |==================================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 2989593.38 |================================================= Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 1929911.67 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Xeon E3-1280 v5 . 47404.91 |===================================================